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Not necessarily, Dewster is notoriously critical of DP sounds and would probably say much the same about Yamaha, Roland, Korg and Casio sounds.

They sounded OK to me, the pianos certainly aren't the best available but the best are also a lot more expensive than these - presumably anyway I haven't been able to find a price. They use Fatar actions too which are good quality.

More important though, what do you think of the sounds, it's you who will be playing and listening to them after all! They seem to be an established make for organs if not pianos. If you can find some to try I'd at least consider them but I'd be cautious about buying unseen!

BTW 64 note polyphony is lowish by todays standards but it's OK, the Korg SP250 only has 60 note but it's a very nice instrument.

Dewster is notoriously critical of DP sounds and would probably say much the same about Yamaha, Roland, Korg and Casio sounds.

No disrespect, but no, no, a thousand times NO! The piano sound on any decent Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Casio, etc. is 1000% better than what I'm hearing on the Orla sample page. I mean, listen to that piano, the decay drops like a rock and they are doing their best to cover it up with quick notes and lots of key-up / pedal-up damping. It's just atrocious.

In fact, all of the sounds on the Orlas are some of the worst, cheesiest sounding patches I've ever heard on anything. I'm talking 8-bit Fairlight territory *shudder*.

Help me out here people, this isn't just me doing my usual rant, go to this page and see if you can find anything that you would ever want to intentionally listen to for ANY length of time:

More important though, what do you think of the sounds, it's you who will be playing and listening to them after all! They seem to be an established make for organs if not pianos. If you can find some to try I'd at least consider them but I'd be cautious about buying unseen!

No disrespect, but no, no, a thousand times NO! The piano sound on any decent Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Casio, etc. is 1000% better than what I'm hearing on the Orla sample page. I mean, listen to that piano, the decay drops like a rock and they are doing their best to cover it up with quick notes and lots of key-up / pedal-up damping. It's just atrocious.

Yes but you said the same thing about the piano on the Korg SP250 which many consider to be a great sounding piano. I'd agree the Orla piano doesn't sound good but if Sarasa is on a tight budget (and they apparently are) and these are cheap they might be worth considering. Actually I quite like the Piano2/Honky Tonk voice and the organs. The church organ doesn't sound remotely like a pipe organ but it's still quite a nice noise.

As for Fatar I have no experience of them but I was advised on a couple of forums and via reviews that Fatar/Studiologic make good controllers and supply quality actions to other manufacturers.

Yes but you said the same thing about the piano on the Korg SP250 which many consider to be a great sounding piano.

It's all relative.

Most, if not all, DP piano sounds aren't very good compared to what the same or less money can get you on a PC (the dewster's v1.0 rant).

The SP250 piano sound isn't very good compared to other DPs in its price range (IMO).

The Orla piano sound isn't very good compared to anything in any price range, down to and almost including free toys (IMO). To me, it sounds almost as bad as the SoundFont piano used by the Windows MIDI player.